diff --git a/srcpkgs/shared-mime-info/template b/srcpkgs/shared-mime-info/template
index 3850fbb660..933e50e5a7 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/shared-mime-info/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/shared-mime-info/template
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info"
 distfiles="http://people.freedesktop.org/~hadess/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
 checksum=bbc0bd023f497dfd75e1ca73441cbbb5a63617d9e14f2790b868361cc055b5b1
+disable_parallel_build=yes